Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.